Collapsible seat.



A. SALATI. COLLAPSIBLE SEAT- APPLICATION FILED JULY l3| I917- Patented Nbv. 13, 1917.

Inventor ywt M Mm wjzgw ARMANDO SALA'I'I, F PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

COLLAPSIBLE SEAT.

Specification of Letters Patent. Patented N 13, 1917,

Application filed July 13, 1917. Serial No. 180,255.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ARMANno SALATI, a

subject of the King of Italy, residing in the city and county of Philadelphia, in the State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Collapsible Seats, of which the following is a true and exact description, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, which form a part thereof.

The object of my present invention is to provide a portable seat of novel construction adapted to be used as an ordinary chair, as a bath tub seat, and in other ways, and especially adapted for use as a sanitary convenience by invalids.

The various features of novelty which characterize my invention are pointed out with particularity in the claims annexed hereto and forming a part of this specification.

For a better understanding of the invention, however, and the advantages possessed by it, reference should be had to the accompanying drawings and descriptive matter in which I have illustrated and described a preferred embodiment of my invention.

Of the drawings:

Figure 1 is a front elevation of my improved seat.

Fig. 2 is a side elevation.

Fig. 3 is a plan view with interchangeable seat cover and back member removed, and

Fig. 4 is a partial rear elevation.

In the drawings, A represents the seat body, which, in'the preferred form illustrated, resembles a water closet seat of the type in which the seat A proper, is in the form of a horse shoe surrounding the seat opening A on three sides. The seat body is formed of wood or like material and advantageously, as shown, has secured to it under seat a metallic reinforcing frame B of curved metal angle bars, with bracket arms B projecting from the supporting frame B at opposite sides of the seat. To the two arms B at each side of the seat are pivotally connected a pair of arm or leg members .0; the two members C of each pair being rigidly connected by a brace C Each member 0 may advantageously be in the form of an iron rod having its upper end flattened and its lower end bent to form a flattened hook C In the flattened upper end of each member C is formed one or, preferably as shown, more holes C, to receive the ends of the bolts D by means of which the corresponding pair of members C are pivoted to the brackets B. Each bolt D passes through the corresponding pair of brackets B, and as shown, through a tubular brace B connecting the latter. Each bolt D is provided at one end with a head D, and at the other end is threaded to re ceive a thumb clamping nut B. To secure the members C 1n posltlons relative to the seat shown in full lines in Figs; 1, 2 and 4- a swinging latch member E is pivoted to the rear bracket B at each side of the chair as by means of the rivet E At its far end each latch member E is provided with a notch E adapted to take over a headed stud C secured to the corresponding member C. In this condition the seat is intended to have the flattened hook end 0 of the member C rest upon the floor, or other supporting surface, and the seat may then be .used as an ordinary chair. When the latch- C only when the arms C are in the positions shown in Figs. 1 and 2 with the bolts D passing through the uppermost holes C in the members C, but when the members C are in their dotted line position the bolts D may pass through whichever of the holes C will give the most convenient adjustment of the seat with regard to the particular bath tub in which it may then be used. The

hooked ends C of the member C may be.

covered with rubber tubing, or like material, to prevent the members from marring the surface of the bath tub with which the seat may be used.

A member F, which may be used either to cover the opening A in the seat proper, or

when in the positionshown in Figs. 1 and member F from turning backward beyond the position shown in Figs. 1 and 2.

Secured to the under side of the seat are supports G for a receptacle H. As shown, the supports G are in the form of parallel angle bars having their horizontal flanges turned toward one another at their lower edges; each support G is secured to the frame work B by rivets G and G The receptacle H is formed with a flange H at its upper end whichis adapted to take over the horizontal flanges of the supports G, and may slide into and out ,of position under the seat.

The seat with the receptacle H in place is well adapted for use by an invalid or semiinvalid in washing the portion of his body exposed through the opening A with washing fluid contaired in the receptacle H, which may be dipped up and applied b the hands of the patient. The receptacle 1% fits snugly against the under side of the seat, and byreason of this fact, and a suitable sloping shape, such as that illustrated, which may readily 'be given to the receptacle, the liability of the liquid splashing out of thereceptacle is greatly minimized.

While in accordance with the provisions of the statutes I have illustrated and described the best form of my invention now known to me, it will be apparent to those skilled in the art that changes maybe made in the form of my invention without departing from its spirit, and that some features of my invention may sometimes be used to advantage without a corresponding use of other features of the invention. s

Having now described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. A convertible seat, comprising in com bination a seat body and bers pivoted to the seat body at its opposite sides and terminating at their free ends in hooks and being adapted to form supporting legs for the seat body when in one position in which said members extend downwardly from the seat'body, and being adapted to be swung from said one position into a second position in which said members extend upwardly from the said body and the hook ends thereof are adapted to hook over the opposite sides of a bath tub.

2. A convertible seat, comprising in combination a seat body and supporting members pivoted to the seat member at its'opposite sides and terminating at their free ends in hooks, and adapted to be swung from one position in which they extend downwardly from the seat body and form supporting legs for the latter, into another osition in which they extend upwardly rom the seat body and are adapted to hook over the opposite sides of a bath tub, and means supporting mem- I with for releasably locking said supporting members in the first above mentioned osltion.

3. In a convertible seat, the com ination of a seat body comprising a metallic supporting frame at its under side includin bracket arms projecting at the opposite si es of the seat, supporting memberspivoted to said arms and terminating at their free ends in hooks adapted to take over the side edges of a bath tub when said supporting members extend upwardly from the seat, and to engage the floor when said members extend downwardly from the seat, and means for releasably securing said supportin members in rigid relation to said seat bo y when they extend downwardly from the seat body.

4. In a convertible seat, a seat body provided with bearings at each side edge, a pivot pin mounted in said bearings, supporting members each formed with a series of apertures adapted to receive the corresponding pivot pin, and formed at its opposite end with a hook portion adapted to take over the side edge of a bath tub when said members project upwardly from said seat body, and means for releasably securing said seat body and supporting members in rigid relation when the latter extends downwardly from theseat body.

5. In a convertible seat, a seat body formed with an aperture and comprising a metallic frame at its under side at the margin of said aperture, supporting members pivoted to said frame and terminating at their ends in hooks adapted to take over the side edges of a bath tub when extending upwardly from said seat and to engage the floor when extendin downwardly from said seat, and a receptac e detachably secured to said frame and having an open upper end in register with the aperture in said seat body.

6. In a convertible seat, a seat .bo y formed with an aperture open at the front side of the seat and comprising a metallic frame at its under side at the margin of said aperture and including parallel angle bar guides, supporting members pivoted to said frame and terminating at their ends in hooks adapted to take over the side edges of a bath tub when extending upwardly from said seat and to engage the floor when extending downwardly from said seat, and a receptacle slidably received in said guides and having an open upper end in register the aperture in said seat.

7. In a convertible seat, a seat body formed with an aperture and comprising a metallic frame at its under side at the margin of said aperture and including parallel floor when extending downwardly from said seat, and a receptacle slidably received in said guides and having an open upper end in register with the aperture in said seat.

8. In a convertible seat, a seat body formed with an aperture and comprising a metallic frame at its under side at the margin of said aperture, supporting members pivoted to said frame and terminating at their ends in hooks adapted to take over the side edges of a bath tub when extending upwardly from said seat and to engage t e floor when extendin downwardly from said seat, and a receptac e detachably secured to said frame and having an open upper end in register with the aperture in said seat body, and a member hinged to said seat body and adapted when lowered to form a cover for said aperture, and when raised to form a back rest for a erson sitting on said seat.

9. A converti 1e seat, comprising in combination a seat body and supporting members pivoted to the seat body at its opposite sides and terminating at their free ends in hooks and being adapted to form supporting legs for the seat body when in one position in which said members extend downwardly from the seat body, said hook ends being flattened to form supporting feet when the members are in said one position, and being adapted to be swung from said one position into a second position in which said members extend upwardly from the said body and the hook ends thereof are adapted to hook over the opposite sides of a bath tub ARMANDO SALATI. 

